Comments | wwolfe: "We are all Chicken Boy."

wwolfe

"We are all Chicken Boy."

Apr 11, 2007 19:17

[This is a column written by Al Martinez and published recently in the Los Angeles Times. I remember seeing the subject of his piece, standing tall and proud, when I first moved here back in the early 1980s. Stuff like this is why I love LA, to coin a phrase ( Read more... )

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kuzibah April 12 2007, 12:53:30 UTC

I read this last night but didn't have a chance to comment.

Love this article. You know I have a great fondness for this kind of thing, the gentle weird whimsy that seems stitched into the fabric of American life, but more particularly in California (and Florida, to a lesser extent.) I hope Inouye is able to put up her statue soon.

sternwieser April 12 2007, 14:16:10 UTC

"Homo gallus gallus."

That made me smile.

On a somewhat related note, we are hoping that the Route 1 dinosaur will rise again.

Awww... kuzibah April 12 2007, 16:24:08 UTC

The poor dinosaur.

wwolfe April 12 2007, 22:54:25 UTC

It may sound silly, but I'd actually kick in some coin to help the T. rex.

iidoru April 13 2007, 19:35:10 UTC

Things like Chicken Boy are what really make up a city, I believe.